Qld child abuser previously sacked in NSW

The child abuse royal commission says it has received fresh information suggesting disgraced former Brisbane high school counsellor Kevin Lynch had been convicted of child sex offences in a NSW school in the 1950s.

Lynch killed himself the day after he was charged with child sexual offences in January 1997 while still employed as a counsellor at St Paul's School.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which investigated his abuse at Brisbane Grammar School and St Paul's through the 1970s, 80s and 90s, has revealed Lynch was dismissed by the NSW Education Department in 1958 following a conviction for indecent assault.

A supplementary report into Lynch's case released on Thursday reveals the royal commission received anonymous correspondence in May this year.

The correspondence pointed to a NSW Government Gazette dated 14 March 1958, which mentioned Mr Lynch had been summarily dismissed from the NSW Education Department because he had been convicted of "a felony".

"Although the charges and convictions against Mr Lynch do not specify whether the offences were committed against adults or children, we are satisfied by the accompanying note - that he is to refrain from contact with children - that the offences probably involved a child or children," the report's authors note.

The original report was damning of St Paul's and Brisbane Grammar for not following up on complaints made against him by students.

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However the supplementary report also found that due to the nature of interstate record sharing at the time, both schools were unlikely to find out about Lynch's previous dismissal.

"We conclude that it is unlikely that any further reasonable inquiry on the part of either Brisbane Grammar or St Paul's would have revealed Mr Lynch's 1957 New South Wales offences and subsequent 1958 dismissal before he was employed by each of those schools," the report found.